I've already followed the instructions in "Making Eclipse Soar" (although I didn't add Perforce nor the PyQT stuff). Xtext looks too complicated. I also found the Colorer-take5 library at http://colorer.sourceforge.net/. I contacted Igor Russkih, the author, who told me it could be used to accomplish this task, but I'm not a "real" programmer, so there's no way I could pull it off in a reasonable amount of time. His reply was:
"Sure you can do this. EclipseColorer distribution contains packed syntax description - you can extract and review them. You need net.sf.colorer_0.9.1/colorer/hrc/common.jar:base/python.hrc As a most simple modification, there you'll find a listing of keywords like <word name="ImportError"/> Adding your own keywords (and then updating the common.jar file) will eventually give you these keywords highlighting in python. For more info, you may refer hrc-reference on colorer's site." Maybe it would be worthwhile for one of you guys in a studio to look into this? -- http://groups.google.com/group/python_inside_maya
